January • January 1 • Edson Tadeo Cárdenas Huerta (17), soccer player (
Tigres UANL) (b. 1999). • Martha Patricia Figueroa Juárez (53), social activist, businesswoman, politician in
Cordoba, Veracruz; cáncer. • Serafín Espinal (65), músician. • January 2 • Ernesto Franco Cobos, cultural promoter and writer in
Tuxpan. • Olegario Contreras Rubio, radio announcer in Sinaloa; heart problems. • Analy Loera, businesswoman and cultural promoter; brain and lung cancer. • January 3 •
Cecilia González Gómez, 55, politician, Deputy (2012-2915); heart attack (b. 1961). • Lucía Eugenia Torres Pereda, journalist. • January 5 • Marco Francisco González Meza, public servant, accidente de tráfico. •
Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota,
Roman Catholic bishop of Tepic (b. 1931). • Cesáreo Víctor Santiago López, polítician from Oaxaca; murdered. • Carmen Sánchez Galán (45), public servant; complicaciones post-operative complications. • January 15 •
Isidro Baldenegro López, environmental activist, murdered. •
Gorky González Quiñones, ceramist (b. 1939). • January 16 – Romeo Gómez Aguilar (97), músician and academic (b. 1919). • January 17 – Martín Barrón Félix (52), physicist and meteorologist; liver failure and anemia (b. 1964). • January 18 – Raúl Muñoz Popoca (77), businessman in tourist industry. • January 19 • David Contreras, polítician (PRI) and public servant; diabetes. • Fernando Soto (17), músician from Jalisco; drowning. • January 20 – Abraham Ibarra Robles, public servant from
Santa María Colotepec, Oaxaca; murdered. • January 21 – Fernando Maiz Garza (57), businessman, builder, and philanthropist; airplane crash (b. 1959). • January 22 • Jesus Garcia, 72, boxer. • Juan Huerta Ortega (67), businessman and rancher from Puebla; heart attack (b. 1949). • Isidro Patrón Lara, musician. • January 23 – Giovanni Arturo Amparan Zaragoza (30), businessman; shot. • January 24 • Ismael Gutiérrez (79), boxer (b. 1937). • Antolín Vital Martínez, polítician, mayor of
Tepexco, Puebla; murdered. • January 25 • Adalberto Rosas López, polítician from (
Ciudad Obregón), Sonora; thrombosis. • Agustín Sauret (85), voice actor ("Ned Flanders" in
The Simpsons). •
Raúl Valerio, 90, actor (
Por tu amor (telenovela),
Clase 406,
La Verdad Oculta,
Imperio de Cristal). • January 26 – Javier García Narro, businessperson and leader of
Coparmex (a business association) in
Saltillo, Coahuila. • January 27 • Fredman Cruz Maldonado, singer; lung problems. • Mario Palestina Moreno (45), baseball player; heart attack (b. 1971). • January 28 • Benjamín Cabral, filmmaker. • Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez (22), soccer player; murdered (b.
November 8, 1994). • January 29 •
Omar Jair Canepa Polanco, public servant; murdered. • Ángel García Cook (79), anthropologist and researcher (INAH) (b. 1937). •
Jorge Robles, músician and singer; cáncer. • January 30 –
Fidel Briano (72), lawyer and journalist. • January 31 • Pedro Koh Cimé, Yucatan polítician; murdered. • José Luis Lagunes López, public servant; cáncer.
February • February 3 –
Lorenzo Servitje, 98, businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of
Grupo Bimbo (b. November 20,
1918. • February 7 –
Eusebio Ruvalcaba (65), writer (
Un hilito de sange), journalist, essayist, playwright (b. 1951). • February 9 –
Josefina Leiner, actress (b. 1929). • February 15 –
José Solé, 87, stage actor and director
(Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes) (b. July 28, 1929). • February 16 –
Teresa del Conde, art historian and critic (b. 1935). • February 21 –
Neus Espresate Xirau (83), Spanish-born Mexican editor (founder of
Ediciones Era); complicaciones respiratorias (n. 1934). • February 22 •
David Bárcena Ríos, equestrian and modern pentathlete (b. 1941). •
Ricardo Domínguez, 31, welterweight wrestler; colon cancer (b. 1985). • February 27 –
Eva Maria Zuk, 71, Polish-born Mexican pianist; lung problems.
March • March 3 •
Rolando Arellano Sánchez (22), músician and singer ("Grupo Contacto"), murdered. •
Miguel Guzmán Rosales (66), painter. • March 5 •
Abril Campillo (58), actress; breast cancer (b.
1958). •
Tony Flores (67), comedian; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. •
Alejandro Rosales (49), television star (
El Sibidibidi); heart attack. •
José Ignacio Rosillo Rodríguez (85), journalist. • March 6 –
Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, 81, economist and politician (PRI) (b. 1935) • March 9 •
Enrique Ortiz Rivas, mathematician, politician, and labor leader; surgical complications. • Raquel Parot (92), actress •
Juan Gabriel Sánchez Gómez (43), leader of taxi drivers in
Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered. •
Zorro (62), singer and politician, stroke. • March 12 •
Mario Agredano Brambila (88), radio and television announcer, reporter, and commentator in
Nuevo Leon. • Joaquín Arizpe de la Maza, businessman and philanthropist. •
Refugio Arturo García Moreno (63), education leader ("Conalep"); heart attack. •
Raúl Maldonado Mendoza, poet and orator from Oaxaca; heart attack. • March 13 –
Sarah Jiménez, engraving artist, member of the
Salón de la Plástica Mexicana; respiratory problems (b. 1927). • March 14 – José Iván Ponce, labor leader in
Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered. • March 15 – Armando Garza Sada (84), engineer, businessman (
Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery), and banker (
Banco de Londres y México and Banpais). • March 18 •
Juan Miguel de Mora Vaquerizo (96), member of the
International Brigade during the
Spanish Civil War, university professor, and writer (b. October 18, 1921). • Santiago Vela, reporter for "Radio Formula" in
Fortín de las Flores, Veracruuz; murdered. • March 19 – José Reza Fernández (61), polítician in
Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila; suicide. • March 20 • Arturo Cruz Bárcenas (58), journalist (
La Jornada); renal disease. •
Carlos Hermosillo Arteaga, 39, politician (PRI), Deputy (2015-2018) and public servant in
Chihuahua; auto accident (b. 1977). • Antonio Riviello Bazán (90), former
Secretary of National Defense (1988) (b. Nov 21, 1926). • Humberto Romo Medina, radio and television announcer in Nuevo Leon. • March 21 • Víctor Bartoli (65), writer (
Mujer Alabastrina) from
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. • Marco Villafán (64), translator and adaptor of theatrical productions. • March 23 –
Miroslava Breach, 54, journalist (
La Jornada and
El Norte de Chihuahua); murdered (b. August 7, 1962). • March 29 • Felipe Altamirano Carrillo, Indigenous priest from
Nayarit; murdered. • Dennis Palomo (21), comedian; suicide. • Aurelio Prado Flores (68), Roman Catholic social activist and columnist (
La Voz) (B. 1949). • Leodegario Varela González, polítician from Zacatecas; cáncer. • March 30 – Six murders in Oaxaca: • Juan José Hernández Alchino, 38, teacher from
Pinotepa Nacional. • Rutilio Quirino Barragán Andrade, 75, former mayor of
Santiago Tamazola (PRD). • Amada Berenice H. V., a high school student from
Santiago Jocotepec. • Abel Rivera Roque, 31, called
El Tortilla, from
Tuxtepec. • March 31 –
Rubén Amaro Sr., 81, baseball player (
Philadelphia Phillies,
New York Yankees) and coach, World Series champion (1980); natural causes (b. 1936).
April • April 2 –
Alma Delia Fuentes, actress (
Los Olvidados (1950)
A toda máquina (1951), and
Historia de un corazón (1951)) (b. 1937). • April 7 –
Arturo García Bustos, 90, painter (b. 1926). • April 8 –
José Ángel Nájera Sánchez Fisherman, professional wrestler (b. 1951) • April 9 • Roger Arellano Sotelo, polítician, former mayor of
Acapetlahuaya, Guerrero; murdered. • Fidencio Escamilla Cervantes (65), poet and playwright from
Tonala, Jalisco; heart attack (n. 1951). •
Margarita Isabel, 75, Mexican actress (
Cronos), emphysema. • Alicia Rivas Lombera, high school theater teacher; cáncer. • José Alberto Toledo Villalobos, anti-mining activist in
San Pedro Tapanatepec, Oaxaca; murdered. • April 11 – Teresa Moran, 78, painter from Puebla (b. September 15, 1939). • April 12 • Rafael Junquera Maldonado, writer and activist (Student movement of 1968) from
Xalapa, Veracruz (b. 1941 or 1942). • Rubén Morales Rodríguez, 79, public accountant from
Veracruz (city). • April 22 –
Leobardo Flores Ávila, 102, co-founder of the
Confederation of Mexican Workers in
Torreón, Coahuila. • April 24 •
Evangelina Villegas, 92, biochemist. • Juan José Flores Lira, polítician, mayor of
Ignacio de la Llave, Veracruz; heart attack. • April 28 •
Brazo de Oro, wrestler; heart attack (b. 1959). • Alejandro Hernández Santos, polítician, mayor of
San Bartolomé Loxicha, Oaxaca; murdered. • April 29 – Filiberto Álvarez Landeros, journalist and radio announcer in
Jojutla, Morelos (
Poemas y cantares and
La Señal); murdered.
May • May 1 – Santos Vega Camargo (73), actor and theater director ("El Confesionario") from
Torreón (b. November 1, 1943. • May 3 – José Herrera Aispuro (51), director of the College of Accounting and Administration of the
Autonomous University of Sinaloa; murdered. • May 4 – Guadalupe González Saíno (30), polítician from
Jopala, Puebla; murdered. • May 7 –
Gran Apache, 58, professional wrestler (
AAA), intestinal cancer. • May 11 • José Manuel Amarillas Monjardín, polítician from
Novolato, Sinaloa; murdered. •
Andrea Romero Rojas, food propomoter (cacao) from
Zacatelco, Tlaxcala (b. 1953). • May 12 • Miguel Ángel Sánchez Morán, public servant and criminal lawyer from
Mazatlán; murdered. • May 13 • Hermenegildo Aké Sarabia, labor leader and politician from
Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo. • Enrique Barrera Chávez (86), form tresurer of Coahuila. • May 15 •
Felipe Ehrenberg, 73, artist, professor and publisher (b. June 27, 1943). •
Javier Valdez Cárdenas, journalist (
Ríodoce,
La Jornada), shot and killed by unidentified gunmen (b. April 14, 1967). • Ángel Noé Mercado Carrillo (43), physician and public servant (director is
ISSSTE in
Tehuacan, Puebla); murdered (b. 1974). • Jonathan Rodríguez Córdova (26), journalist and reporter (
El Costeño de Autlán) from
Autlán, Jalisco; he and his mother were murdered. • May 16 – Mario Moreno Ivanova (57), comedian, son of
Cantinflas (b. 1960). • May 17 –
Raúl Córdoba, 93, soccer player (
Club Atlas,
national team) (b. March 13, 1924). • May 18 • Armando Arce Serrano (57), camera operator and video journalist (
Televisa) (b. 1959). • Oscar González Guerrero (91), comic book writer and illustrator. •
José Mercado Luna (89), soccer player (
1948 Olympic Team) (b. August 6, 1928). •
Enrique Soto Gonzáles, chronicler, historian, and public servant from
Pátzcuaro, Michoacan; heart attack. • May 19 –
David Sánchez, 25, flyweight boxer, traffic collision. • May 20 – Miguel Vázquez Torres, Indigenous
Huichol leader; murdered. • May 22 – Santiago Salas de León, académic, writer, and rector of open university. • May 24 – Miguel Ángel Camacho Zamudio, physician and public servant (director of ISSSTE in Mazatlan); murdered. • May 25 – Juan Carlos Zamarripa Fernández, polítician, mayor of
Pánuco, Veracruz; murdered. • May 27 – Jaasiel Hernán Contreras Vega, photographer; murdered. • May 31 – Fernando Sarabia Beltrán (108), académic and activist.
June • June 2 – Armando Mendoza Duarte (48), polítician; murdered (b. 1969). • June 3 • Juan Robinson Bours, businessman from
Ciudad Obregón, Sonora;
Alzheimer's disease (b. December 25, 1928) • Antonio Sarabia (72), writer (
Tres pies al gato) (b. June 10, 1944). • June 5 •
Eduardo Catarino Dircio, politician (Morena) from
Tixtla de Guerrero municipality, Guerrero; killed by state police. • Eleazar Vargas Lara, community leader and politician from
Iguala, Guerrero; murdered. • Ana Winocur (44), journalist; pancreatitis (b. October 1972). • June 6 – Jorge Ortiz Murray, leader of fishermen in
Mazatlan; heart attack. • June 8 •
Antonio Medellín, 75, Mexican actor (
Tres veces Ana,
Porque el amor manda,
Cuando me enamoro). • Elmer Arias Gutiérrez (24), músician; murdered. • Crisóforo Otero Heredia, politician (PRD), former mayor of
Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero (2012-2015); murdered. • June 30 –
Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, bullfighter, gored. • June 10 – Luis Fuentes Molinar, 89, journalist and politician (PRI), former mayor of Chihuahua (1977-1980) and federal Deputy (1973-1976). • June 11 – Radamés Díaz Meza,
Culiacán, Sinaloa, businessman; murdered. • June 15 – Raúl Miranda Valencia, 48, lawyer and public servant from Michoacan; murdered. • June 17 – Luis Rey Sifuentes, politician (Morena) from Chihuahua; shot. • June 21 – Ulises Hueto Elizalde ("El Chispa") (33), boxer from Mexico City; murdered. • June 23 – Eva Castañeda Cortés (87), social activist (
Unión de Comuneros Emiliano Zapata) from
Morelia, Michoacan. • June 24 • Camilo Juan Castagne Velazco, police commissioner of
La Antigua, Veracruz; murdered alongside another police officer. • Jorge Humberto Higareda Magaña (75), businessman and leader of truckers in Puebla (b. 1942). • June 26 • Salvador Adame, journalist from
Gabriel Zamora, Michoacan; murdered (found dead this date). • Alejandro Zepeda Ortiz (27), journalist and reporter from Chiapas; suicide. • June 27 • Pablo Martín Obregón, journalist (
Televisa) from
Chilpancingo, Guerrero; suicide (hanging). •
Valentín Pimstein 91, Chilean-born television producer (
Televisa) who lived in Mexico (b. August 9, 1925). • June 29 • Rodolfo Díaz ("Chivo") (78), boxer and trainer; diabetes. • Vinicio Ferrer Merino, polítician, mayor of
San Mateo Sindihui, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict. • Demetrio Jaime Martínez Benítez, politician, former mayor of
San Francisco Cahuacúa, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict. • Meztli Sarabia Reyna, activist (
Unión Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes (UPVA) “28 de Octubre”) from Puebla; murdered. • June 30 –
Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25,
bullfighter, gored. • Simón Flores Ramón, polítician and government worker from
Atlacomulco, State of Mexico; electrical discharge. • July 2 • Martín Feregrino Quiróz (27), lawyer and educator (
Autonomous University of Queretaro); breathing problems. • Rodrigo D Garay, actor. • July 3 –
José Luis Cuevas, 83, artist. • July 4 – Walter González Arriaga, polítician; murdered. • July 5 – Luis López Villa (71), Catholic priest from
Los Reyes La Paz, State of Mexico; throat slit. • July 6 •
David Alonso López, 39, boxer, shot. • Mariano Herrán Salvatti (68), lawyer and civil servant; liver condition. • Héctor Villasana Rosales (78), lawyer and académic; anemia. • July 7 • Sergio Fuentes Gutiérrez, lawyer and researcher. • Jorge Juan Rodriguez Reyes, labor leader; automobile accident. • July 8 – Guadalupe Baltazar Rojas, chronicler and craftswoman from
Ixtenco, Tlaxcala. • July 9 – Diego Zavala Pérez (85), lawyer, académic, and polítician, father of
Margarita Zavala; heart attack. • July 10 – Pedro Joaquín Alberto Cárdenas Segura, músician, composer, and orquestra director. • July 13 –
Héctor Lechuga, 88, comedian, actor and radio personality (
México 2000), heart attack. • July 14 • René Chávez (69), baseball player. • Carlos Torres González,
UANL High School principal; murdered. • Elías Sergio Treviño Earnshaw, former mayor of
Monclova, Coahuila. • July 17 – Martha Nava (75), Mexico's best female basketball player. • July 18 • Irma Camacho García (67), polítician (substitute mayor of
Temixco, Morelos, 2016–2017); cardiorespiratory arrest. • Erika Mireles, voice actress ("The Simpsons" and "Doña Clotilde"). • July 19 – Hortensia de la Concepción Orozco Tejada, polítician; stroke. • July 20 – Felipe de Jesús Pérez Luna (48), criminal; shot by police. • July 21 – Ángel Padilla, músician (harp player). July 22 • Juan Bernardo Ruvalcaba, boxer and trainer; killed during robbery. • José Arturo Tolosa Campos (59),
Sinaloa photojournalist (
El Debate); accidente de tránsito. • July 23 – Erwin Trejo (47), singer (
Juan Gabriel's twin); murdered. • July 24 • Juan Figueroa Fuentes, polítician (PRD) and public official; heart attack. •
Luis Gimeno, Uruguayan emigrant actor (
Mañana es para siempre) (b. 1927). • July 25 • Gerardo Gallardo (49), actor ("Chef Ornica") (b. 1967). • David Vera Jiménez (54), public servant in Mexico City; heart attack. • July 26 • Saúl Escudero Pozos (48), polítician and public servant; cáncer. •
Ramón Xirau, 93, Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic. • July 28 – Luis Arturo Porras Aceves (78), journalist and reporter (
El Heraldo de Chihuahua) (b. 1939). • July 31 • Lorenzo Arroyo, immigration activist; amyloidosis. • Baltazar Maldonado Rosales (55), polítician (former mayor of
Apizaco Municipality, Tlaxcala; renal insufficiency and cáncer (b. 1961). • Luciano Rivera, journalist and reporter ("Dictamen" and TV channel CNR (176)) in
Mexicali; murdered. • José Trinidad Ventura González (42),
Presbyterian Church elder in
Orizaba.
August • August 2 • José Miguel Machorro Alcalá, Catholic priest; stabbed in
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral. • Edmundo Ortega, musician (bass player) and composer; heart attack. • August 4 – Roberto Corvera Guzmán, rector of Universidad Angelópolis in
Angelópolis, Puebla; shot. • August 5 – Marcelino Perelló Valls (73), mathematician, academic, and former student activist (b. 1944). • August 6 • Víctor Manuel Cárdenas Morales (65), writer and poet; stroke (b. 1952). • Pedro Manterola Sáinz (52), psychologist, politician, and public official from
Veracruz; heart attack (b. 1965). • Virgilio Ruiz García, musician from Oaxaca; murdered. •
August 8 • Ramón Ángulo Santos (70), politician former mayor of
Angostura Municipality, Sinaloa; cardiac arrest. • Jaime Avilés Iturbe (63), journalist (
Unomásuno) and columnist (
La Jornada and
Proceso); lung cancer. •
Rius, 83, political cartoonist (b. June 20,
1934) • August 11 –
Eugenio Polgovsky, 40, filmmaker (winner of 4
Ariel Awards). • August 12 – César Osuna Aguirre, baseball player (
Venados de Mazatlán); murdered. • August 15 – Rafael Ramírez Sánchez, politician, former mayor of
Sahuayo, Michoacán; kidnapped and murdered. • August 16 – Jesús Aranda, journalist (
La Jornada) (b. 1963). • August 20 • Jerónimo González Huerta (71), artist (b. 1946). • Valdemar Jiménez Solís (90), poet, académic, and cultural journalist (b. 1926). • Aurora Meza Calles (54),
Kumeyaay social activist and translator; pancreatitis. • Martín Rocha Hernández (56),
Durango physician and labor leader; lung cancer. • August 21 • Miguel Mike" Orpinel Mendoza, sportscaster; heart attack. • Salomon Robbins (71), athlete and trainer. • August 22 • Luis Muruato Puente (88), baseball player (
Algodoneros de Unión Laguna). • Cándido Ríos Vásquez, journalist from Veracruz; murdered. • August 23 • Mauricio Delfín Domínguez, politician from
Córdoba, Veracruz; suicide. • Ricardo Murguía (68), singer (
Yo soy tu amigo fiel), musician, and voice actor (b. 1949). • August 24 • Jorge Estrada Álvarez, architect and director or School of Architecture at
Autonomous University of Sinaloa. • Genaro Moreno, children's television broadcaster. • August 26 • Edgar Gil Yoguez (55), politician, former mayor of
Venustiano Carranza, Michoacán; heart attack. • Alicia Juárez (67), singer; heart attack (b. 1950). • Bertha Elisa Medina Parra, politician and public servant, former mayor of
Mocorito Municipality, Sinaloa. • August 27 • Bernardino Cruz Rivas, politician; cardiac arrest. • Juan Santos Vásquez, politician, former mayor of
San Esteban Amatlán, Oaxaca; run over by a car. • August 29 – Hugo Castro Rosado, businessperson and politician, former mayor of
La Antigua, Veracruz; liver failure. • August 30 •
Efrain Loza, 78,
1964 Summer Olympics soccer player. • José Manuel García León,
Tabasco musician; pulmonary emphysema. • August 31 –
Nadia Stankovitch (93), Serbian-born Mexican pianist; heart attack (b. 1924).
September • September 2 • Gabriela del Valle, actress (
Maten a la hiena). • Alejo García García, académic (Instituto Universitario Londres), public servant, and chef. • Oscar Javier González Torres ("El Espectaculo"), 62, músician, actor y comedian; cáncer of the páncreas. • Marisela Ortega Lozano, journalist ("El Paso Times," "El Diario de El Paso," and
Reforma); cáncer. • September 3 –
Sugar Ramos, 75, Cuban-Mexican
Hall of Fame boxer,
WBA/WBC featherweight champion (1963–1964), cancer (b. December 2, 1941). • September 4 –
José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of
Tuxtla (1965–1988) and
San Juan de los Lagos (1988–1999), respiratory complications (b. March 30, 1921). • September 5 – José Durán González, 67, polítician, former mayor of
Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato; murdered. • September 6 – Raúl Castañeda (34), boxer; murdered (b. 1982). • September 11 • Carlos Galván Tello (63), agronomy engineer and public servant (
National Forestry Commission of Mexico in Coahuila; cáncer. • Carlos Muñoz Portal (37), assistant television producer ("Narcos" on
Netflix); murdered. • September 12 – Álvaro Matute Aguirre (74), historian (UNAM) (b. April 19, 1943). • September 27 –
Hiromi Hayakawa, 34, Japanese-born Mexican actress (
El Chema) and singer (
La Academia), liver hemorrhage during childbirth. • September 28 – Karla Luna (38), actress (
Las Lavanderas) and singer; cancer (b. September 25, 1979).
October • October 2 –
Evangelina Elizondo, 88, actress (
Premio Arlequín 2014; voice of
Cinderella in the Walt Disney film), natural causes (b. 1929). • October 4 – Luis de la Hidalga y Enríquez (93), lawyer, public servant, writer ("El Violador de la Rosa", "La Venganza de Lady Wilshire"), and académic (b. December 12, 1923). • October 5 – Édgar Esqueda, journalist (
Vox Populi); murdered. • October 6 – Stalin Sánchez, mayor of
Paracho de Verduzco, Michoacan; murdered. • October 10 – Manuel Hernández Pasión, mayor of
Huitzilan de Serdán, Puebla; murdered along with his wife and a security guard. • October 15 –
Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá, engineer, ambassador, politician (PRI), Senator (1982–1988), governor of
San Luis Potosi (1991-1992); (b. March 10, 1928). • October 16 – Cecilia Méndez, 60, radio announcer in
Zapopan, Puebla; murdered. • October 19 • Gaspar Jesús Azcorra Alejos (75),
Yucatan priest, writer, and poet (b. 1942). • Julio Chávez Hernández, polítician (PT) and social activist in
Veracruz. • October 20 – Crispín Gutiérrez Moreno, politician (PRI), rancher, and mayor of
Ixtlahuacán, Colima; murdered. • October 21 –
Rosaura Barahona, 75, journalist (
El Norte) and feminist writer, pulmonary disease.
November • November 1 – Ignacio Villanueva (86), priest from the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez. • November 6 – Miguel Espinosa "Armillita" (59), bullfighter from
Aguascalientes City (b. September 19, 1958). • November 11 • Maru Dueñas (50), actress, director, and theater producer; auto accident (b. October 3, 1967). • November 13 –
Miguel Hernández Urbán, painter and sculptor from
Tultepec, State of Mexico • November 19 –
Claudio Báez, 69, actor and singer. • November 20 – Silvestre de la Toba Camacho, 47,
Ombudsman of the Human Rights Commission in
Baja California Sur; murdered alongside his son Fernando de la Toba Lucero. • November 25 •
Jesús Gómez, 76, equestrian, Olympic bronze medalist (
1980). •
Rosario Green, 76, economist, diplomat and politician,
Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998–2000) and
Senator (2006–2012). •
Rosendo Huesca Pacheco, 85, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of
Puebla de los Ángeles (1977–2009). • November 26 •
Vicente García Bernal, 88, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of
Ciudad Obregón (1988–2005). •
Óscar Lara Aréchiga, 65, politician. • November 28 –
Rafael Llano Cifuentes, 84, Mexican-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of
Nova Friburgo (2004–2010). • November 29 • Evelia Lopez Vassallo (82), social activist (
Frente Cívico) from
Tonalá, Chiapas; long-time illness. • María Angélica Luna Parra, polítician, public servant ("Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Social"), and social activist.
December • December 5 – Iliana Godoy Patiño (65), narrator, researcher, and poet ("Contralianza" and "Mastil en Tierra") (b. January 22, 1952). • December 8 – Juan Celada Salmón, 101, engineer (
Ternium) and inventor (
Proceso HYL) (b. February 14, 1916). • December 11 –
Jorge Schiaffino Isunza, 70, politician, member of the
Chamber of Deputies (1988–1991) (b. April 10, 1947). • December 14 – Javier Villalobos Jaramillo (76), architect, restaurer and académic (b. April 30, 1941). • December 15 –
Rubén Pato Soria, 75, professional wrestler. • December 18 • Emilio Alvarado Badillo (56), photographer, civil engineer, public servant and académic (ITESM, State of Mexico) (b. 1951). •
Ricardo Miledi (90), neuro-scientist (
Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y de la Academia Nacional de Medicina de México) (b. September 15, 1927). • Ricardo Suriano (67), journalist (
Charamupa) from
Tonalá, Chiapas. • December 19 • Gumaro Pérez Aguilando (34), journalist and reporter (
La Voz del Sur) in
Acayucan, Veracruz; murdered. • Fernando Villares Moreno ("Zorro"), 62, singer ("Fugitivo"); stroke. • December 20 – Jesús Castillo Rangel (121),
Revolutionary and farmer, Mexico's oldest man; respiratory insufficiency and pneumonia.(b. October 24, 1896). • December 24 • Alejandro León Cázarez, baseball journalist and columnist (
La Aficion). • Salvador Magaña Martínez, social leader and activist in
La Huerta, Jalisco, polítician (
Citizens' Movement); murdered. •
Sergio Magaña Martínez, 68, polítician (PRI),
Senator (1994–2000), businessman, former mayor of
Morelia, Michoacan (1993); heart attack (b. December 2, 1949). • José Miguel Rodríguez Asaf (54), businessman (Grupo de Apoyo al Desarrollo de IZAMAL y sus Comisarias), polítician, former mayor of
Izamal Municipality. • Juan Silveti Reynoso (88),
bullfighter; lung disease (b. October 5, 1929). • December 25 • Rudy Casanova (50), Cuban-born Mexican actor (
Amores con trampa and
Hasta el fin del mundo); breathing problems (b. November 3, 1967). • Alfredo Guzman Guzman, former mayor of
Purísima del Rincón, Guanajuato (1977-1979). • José Luis Sánchez Camacho (85), músician. • December 28 • David Antón (93), scenographer and costume designer (b. 1924). • Saúl Galindo Plazola, polítician (PRD), former mayor of
Tomatlán (2013-2015), Jalisco; murdered. • Arturo Gómez Pérez, polítician mayor of
Petatlán, Guerrero; murdered. • Luis Abraham González Contreras (31), photographer y reporter; murdered. • Gerardo Olavarrieta León, hotel owner ("Suites Kokai", "Plaza Kokai", and "Condominios Kokai") in
Cancun, Quintana Roo. • Mario Stern (81), composer and académic (b. 1936). • December 31 • Regino Díaz Redondo, journalist (
Excélsior). • Juan González Gómez ("Juan Cotz"), 63, painter from
San Juan Chamula, Chiapas (b. June 24, 1954). ==See also==